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Seconds after the Able-Day blasts, soot and smoke from target ships billows up while the under water pressure wave I black linej races toward the surrounding atoll. rats and twenty pigs, the latter appropriately placed in sick bay aboard the target ships. At 0830 on July 25, 1946, the tranquil waters of Bikini Lagoon erupted in an awe-inspiring column of smoke and steam, -blotting out the target array for several minutes as the terrific heat and power combined to force tons of radio- active water skyward. A wave of water fifty feet high rushed towards the sur- rounding beaches in a powerful but diminishing surge, causing a shallow water flood which quickly spilled back to seaward. Radio-controlled Geiger counters recorded intense radioactivity equivalent to many hundred tons of radium. PBM patrol planes appro-ached the lagoon from windward twenty minutes after the blast, sampling the air for radioactivity, while the Shangri-La drones followed to leeward in the atomic cloud, collecting samples of radioactive par- ticles for laboratory study. Piloted planes relieved the drones to follow the cloud until most of the dangerous radioactivity had been dissipated. Approximately twenty minutes elapsed before the target array was clearly visible to observation planes. When the steam and smoke had lifted, the battle- ship Arkansas was missing from the array. Pictures of the half-mile-wide co-lumn Q H , , -:1,,, ,-:,:, 1?11yr. .. ' . ,,., .,'. I v.,.,- r Q , W . . ,. I A , ,H - , V '- h - H I I M '- W W Ming-H - i MA- V MM- I v - g WV., 1 V '
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Crest of mushroom cloud at 40,000 feet. beneath the deadly waters of the lagoon just seven and one-half hours after the explosion. As in the Able Day blast, there was little visible damageuto ships outside the half-mile circle except for the intense radioactivity which Would have ren- dered them uninhabitable and useless in combat. Several small craft in the danger
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